"the 1999 American film ""Sleepy Hollow"" with Johnny Depp. She suffers from cystic fibrosis. Born in Welwyn Garden City, Larke is currently lead singer for The Rolling Stones tribute group The Rolling Clones and has toured the UK and internationally with the band. He has recently worked with Big Beat pioneer Cut La Roc on his album ""Larger Than Life"", which also features Ice-T collaborator, Donald D and Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody. Larke works part-time in a primary school, and also teaches ukulele and recorder. In 2014 he worked in a special needs school with children and young adults"
"previously wrote for ""The Irish Times"" music section as guest-editor. As an impassioned music fan and DJ, he recommends in his blogs or essays albums and artists of different and wide-ranging genres of music. In May 2009, Lightbody commenced writing his music column, ""Gary Lightbody's Band of the Week"", in the magazine ""Q The Music.com"". In 2011, he wrote as an essayist for ""The Huffington Post"". As a songwriter/bandleader, he has written songs and lyrics for a wide variety of artists and genres. In 2000, he formed the Scottish supergroup The Reindeer Section, comprising 47 musicians from 20 different bands,"
"on 30 March 2012. The video shows Gary Lightbody, the band's frontman sitting at a bar, lonely and looking upset, while having drink after drink. ""Ignoring all the dancing and smiling faces around him, the frontman stares into space. His lip-synching is even half-hearted, as he's lost in thought about a relationship that didn’t work out...The emotional video is simple but powerful."" New York (Snow Patrol song) ""New York"" is a song by Northern Irish alternative rock group Snow Patrol. The track is the third single from the band's sixth studio album, ""Fallen Empires"". It was released as a digital"
"including members of bands like Belle & Sebastian, Mogwai, Idlewild, Teenage Fanclub, Arab Strap and other musicians. The group released ""Y'All Get Scared Now, Ya Hear!"" in 2001 and ""Son of Evil Reindeer"" in 2002. Growing up, Lightbody listened to artists like Super Furry Animals, Quincy Jones, Kool & the Gang, and Michael Jackson. He subsequently got into hard rock bands AC/DC and KISS as a teen, and then alternative acts like Sebadoh, Mudhoney, Pixies and Pavement. As a boy, he dreamed of becoming ""the biggest rock star on the planet"" like Bono, but he was never ""cool"". Lightbody started"
"inspiration to himself and Lee to start the project. Both Lightbody and Lee play all the instruments. The only known song by the group is ""Black and Silver"", which was premiered on BBC Radio 1 on 10 January 2007 by Lightbody himself, while he was guest presenting for Zane Lowe (who was on vacation) during the 2007 takeovers. The sound of the song was described by ""Hot Press"" as ""heavily treated vocals and assorted electronic clicks and beeps"". ""NME"" described it as having a ""heavily processed arrangement, pitching an ominous multi-tracked vocal backing against glockenspiels and Lightbody’s vocal"". Lightbody himself"
"September 2008. The band invited fans in the age bracket of 18–35 to be a part of the video as extras. Interested people were required to email their details and photograph to the production company Partizan. The ones chosen were utilized for the pub scene, and scenes were shot on 11 August 2008 after midnight. The video was described by ""RockTog"" magazine as a ""fast paced, headache inducing visual spectacle"", but it criticized it for featuring lead singer Gary Lightbody over the other band members. The video is stop-motion shots of London skyscrapers and Gary Lightbody walking through the city"
"Tired Pony Tired Pony is a music supergroup consisting of Gary Lightbody, Richard Colburn, Iain Archer, Jacknife Lee, Peter Buck, Scott McCaughey and Troy Stewart. Lightbody formed the group out of his appreciation for country music, and has during the early planning phase described the group's music once as ""country-tinged"" but explained later that in the end the album's development turned out much more to Americana than country during the whole creative process in the studio. The group visited Portland, Oregon in January 2010 to record this debut album, which was produced by member Lee; ""The Place We Ran From"""
"music video for the song was shot after the band finished the Take Back the Cities whistle-stop tour. It was produced by Suza Horvat and directed by Kevin Godley. The video opens with the band playing the opening bars of the song on their respective instruments. Gary Lightbody is then shown singing the lyrics with the camera focused on his lips. The camera zooms out, slowly revealing his full face. As the song reaches its chorus, the camera zooms out quickly to show the whole band and a crowd of people are shown running past. The people disappear as the"
"""LMA Manager 2007"". Two videos were shot for this song. The first one, released with the single, shows Gary Lightbody walking through a city and tearing holes on the landscape at certain points. Upon entering them, he joins the rest of the band as they play and sings one part of the song, before going out and walking a bit more until tearing another hole and rejoining the band, in a cycle which repeats a few times throughout the video. The second one, accompanying the Australian single release, consists of a live performance during a tour of the band on"
"hop community. Lightbody felt it would be one of the most sought-after songs on the collection. Lightbody is pleased with ""Give Me Strength"" and has named it [probably] his most favorite song by the band. The song is about everyone who's ""been there"", his love for his bandmates, especially Jonny Quinn, whom he considers his big brother. He has said that it was ""long overdue"". The song is lyrically similar to ""Weather to Fly"" by Elbow. Lightbody is a huge fan of the band and is ""head-over-heels in love"" with them. He has credited the band for being the reason"
"The band wanted to make an album more quickly than they had done the last time. By the time Snow Patrol ended their Eyes Open Tour, Lightbody had approximately 220 songs written on GarageBand. During the recording process, the band narrowed them down to approximately 30 songs, of which about 20 were eventually recorded. Apart from Lightbody, Nathan Connolly and Paul Wilson too had written songs. The band listened to albums from artists like Fleet Foxes, Wolf Parade and Sigur Rós during the process. In an interview after the Eyes Open Tour, it became known that the band wished to"
"Simon directed the music video. The music video, centered around a video shoot, sees Gary Lightbody (as stand-in), amongst dancers and the singer portrayed by Davenport, make a nuisance of himself on the set of the shoot. Lightbody tries hard to take part in the video and Tara Summers (director) precludes him from doing so. By the end of the video, the dancers are down to their underwear and Lightbody has grabbed a hold of the camera as it cranes out. Called Out in the Dark ""Called Out in the Dark"" is a song by Northern Irish rock band Snow"
"by ""Crack the Shutters"". At the time of the release of the album, SP.com posted a section featuring lead singer and lyricist Gary Lightbody discussing the new songs, which was initially a Lightbody interview to RTÉ. About ""Take Back the City"", he said that though the song was inspired by Belfast and Northern Ireland in general, it applied to every other city and the relationship its inhabitants have with it. He said that it's ""about the reasons why I grew up confused by my country and the reasons now why I love it so"". Lightbody, who grew up in Belfast"
"guitar riff that runs relentlessly throughout the track, quickly followed by a dancelike drumbeat which boldly kicks in alongside Gary Lightbody’s distinct vocals declaring, 'it's like we just can't help ourselves cause we don't know how to back down.' ""As the kids took back the parks,"" Lightbody sings, ""You and I were left with the streets."" The song builds momentum and reaches a climax with a striking, textured, electronic heavy chorus, 'we are listening and we are not blind, this is your life, this is your time.' The song aptly ends with the repeating guitar riff and its accompanying drum"
"for the 2018 Divide world tour. Snow Patrol Snow Patrol are a British rock band formed in Scotland in 1994, consisting of Gary Lightbody (vocals, guitar), Nathan Connolly (guitar, backing vocals), Paul Wilson (bass guitar, backing vocals), Jonny Quinn (drums), and Johnny McDaid (piano, guitar, backing vocals). Initially an indie rock band, the band rose to prominence in the early-mid 2000s as part of the post-Britpop movement. The band were founded at the University of Dundee in 1994 by Lightbody, Michael Morrison, and Mark McClelland as Shrug. After briefly using the name Polarbear and released the EP ""Starfighter Pilot"" (1997)"
"Gary Lightbody. Morrison left the band in 1995 and with new drummer Jonny Quinn, they became Polar Bear and eventually Snow Patrol. On 9 July 1998, McClelland graduated with first class honours and was one of the only three students to graduate in the course that year. Additionally, he was the only student to graduate in first class for that course that year. A few weeks later, Snow Patrol released their first studio album ""Songs for Polarbears"" (a reference to previous band name Polarbear) under Jeepster. In 2001, the band released their second studio album ""When It's All Over We"
"'80s-kissed track"". Lightbody, who as a teenager loved dance music and frequented nightclubs, says ""Just Say Yes"" is a song that the band has always ""had in them"", but expressed surprise at the fact it took 15 years to happen. Quinn admitted the band were worried and knew they were taking a chance with the song. He felt a lot of people might hate it, but said the band had no regrets doing it. The song received its first airplay on Zane Lowe's BBC Radio 1 show on 17 September 2009. Lightbody joined Lowe on air via phone from Toronto,"
"one for the US. In the UK music video, Gary Lightbody lies on the open ground as cameras film him from different angles. It starts raining, splashing his face and hands. Lightbody enters a pool of water next to him and, at the end of the video, he gets out of the water, rises to his feet and looks up at the camera as it zooms out overhead. In the US music video, Lightbody is shown lying down in busy places while singing. People ignore him and step over him. Among the places he lies are a diner, an intersection,"
"in the first person"". It praised Lightbody's vocals, saying that though it would be easy for a singer to overdo the chorus, Lightbody did it as if he was ""unimpressed"". However, Stereogum's review of the single was extremely negative. It called the song ""drab"" and mocked the band for ""doing the piano sap rock so effectively"", saying only ""moms and first dates"" will like it. ""NME"" made comparisons between Gary Lightbody and ""Spider-man"" Peter Parker, saying both live double lives, with Lightbody's duality being a ""mainstream/indie bastard hybrid"". It said that both had to choose between their ""good and dark"
"its only live performance at the Meteor Music Awards held at the RDS, Dublin on 15 February 2008. Lightbody and Hannigan dueted at the awards ceremony on the night. Some Surprise ""Some Surprise"" is a song which features on the charity album ""The Cake Sale"" released in 2006 by The Cake Sale. It is a duet between former Damien Rice collaborator Lisa Hannigan and Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody, written by Bell X1 frontman Paul Noonan. The song was performed live by the duo for the first and only time at the 2008 Meteor Awards. In addition the song featured"
"as they would have subsequently taken that success for granted. Lightbody is known to keep his personal life private. Lightbody is passionate about football, is a supporter of Manchester United and has been known to support both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland national football teams. This is supported by the song ""Lifening"", in which he sings the lyrics ""Ireland in the World Cup, either North or South"". He is a fan of the , particularly Wolverine, and owns a stack of comics. He bought several comics as a kid and has some that he has never opened, hoping"
"and sang lead female vocals on ""Set the Fire to the Third Bar"", which originally featured Martha Wainwright. On 9 March, Gary Lightbody & Nathan Connolly appeared as guests in Iain Archer's set at the Ulster Hall, Belfast, which was hosting ""Do You Remember the First Time?"" a one-off event by BBC Across The Line. Lightbody wrote a blog about the other artists that appeared at the event later. The last show of the tour had the band's friends & family and the Northern Irish Football squad in the 9,000 strong audience. The band played to an estimated 200,000 fans"
"in July/August. The band also released a compilation album featuring tracks from the band's 15-year history, ""Up to Now"", on 9 November 2009. It includes thirty tracks spanning two CDs, of which three are original new songs. ""Just Say Yes"", a song written by Lightbody and earlier recorded by Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger and X Factor star Diana Vickers, was released as the lead single on 2 November. The album additionally contains past singles, covers and rarities, including songs from the band's side-project The Reindeer Section. A limited edition coffee-table book is also in the works. The band also wishes"
"last song is sixteen-minutes long and by far the longest we've ever done. Don't be frightened though, it's great. Although, for now, you'll have to take my word for that and I'm pretty biased I have to say"". At the time of the release of the album, SP.com posted a section featuring Gary Lightbody discussing the new songs, which was initially a Lightbody interview to RTÉ. The interview revealed that the song was initially three different songs. However, the band felt that they ""worked so well together it was obvious they belonged in one place"". He elaborated more on the"
"Dundee. Lightbody formed a band with Mark McClelland and drummer Michael Morrison in 1994, called Shrug. Morrison left the band later, and the band were forced to change the name to Polarbear, as another band had claimed the name. In the band's first seven years of existence, they added drummer Jonny Quinn, released two albums (""Songs for Polarbears"", and ""When It's All Over We Still Have to Clear Up""), and toured with bands such as Levellers, Ash and Travis. The band stayed in Glasgow during the recording of the first two albums. Lightbody used to hold a job at the"
"sees the song as ""a strange, little, dark, country, folkish beast."" Apart from ""Black and Silver"", more music has been recorded, whose direction has been branded by Lightbody as a ""mad turn"". In May 2009, Lightbody revealed plans of releasing material in an album called ""Listen Tank"". He described the group's sound as ""russian submarine music"", explaining that the record utilizes a lot more voice than the guitar, the result sounding like a choir performing underwater. Due to the radical differences from typical Snow Patrol, he doesn't expect every fan to like it. Lightbody has taken a year-off from Snow"
"and the nobility, appears often in the original novels. Singing at the head of the group is Snow Patrol's frontman Gary Lightbody, in a cameo appearance. The closing credits reprise the song in a new version recorded specifically for the series by the indie band The Hold Steady. The group, one of Benioff and Weiss's favourite bands, was chosen because they wanted the rendition ""to be bawdy and a little sloppy – drunken musicians getting up on the table and jamming while the rowdy party continues around them"". The decision to place the song at the end of the episode,"
"little guitar I'd tried to smash up in my shitty little room near Hillhead. The words 'Light up, light up' gave me this sense of a beacon."" In an interview with ""Daily Mail"" in 2009, Lightbody added: ""We had nothing. I was in a flat in Glasgow. No doubt it was raining. The song was me writing about an imagined world, projecting myself into better times."" Beside Lightbody, it was written by Quinn, Nathan Connolly, Mark McClelland and Iain Archer. ""Run"" is a power ballad composed using common time in the key of C major, with a tempo of 72"
"in June and joined officially as new Lead Singer in September. A list of Producers, Engineers and Musicians that The Lighthouse Boys have recorded with over the years. <nowiki>*</nowiki>originally recorded May 26, 1980 <nowiki>**</nowiki>originally recorded from 1995-1997 The Lighthouse Boys The Lighthouse Boys are an American Southern Gospel band from Bakersfield, California, and progenitors of ""The Bakersfield Sound"". The group began in 1974 by brothers Mark and Bill Underwood and Bill's brother in-law Steve Johnson. In 1976, the trio expanded from a vocal ensemble to a full band with the addition of Frank McNinch, Garry Miller, and Kenny Knight. The"
"The Cake Sale (album) The Cake Sale is a 2006 charity album involving the collected works of a group of Irish and international musicians calling themselves The Cake Sale. The album features artists such as Snow Patrol's Gary Lightbody, Lisa Hannigan, Damien Rice, Josh Ritter, Glen Hansard, Neil Hannon, members of Bell X1 and Nina Persson of The Cardigans. These were brought together by Brian Crosby, a member of Bell X1 at the time. The album had sold 35,000 copies and raised over €250,000 in Ireland by November 2007. That month it was announced that the album would be released"
"Murray Lightburn Murray Lightburn is a Canadian musician, best known as the lead vocalist and principal songwriter for The Dears. Lightburn has been called ""the black Morrissey"" due to his vocal similarity (and shared penchant for somewhat dark lyrics) to the former The Smiths lead singer. Incidentally, The Dears toured as Morrissey's opening act during Morrissey's solo tour. His voice is also often compared to that of Damon Albarn. Lightburn claims to be ""absolutely f*cking bored to death"" with these recurrent comparisons. In 2005, Lightburn married fellow band member, keyboardist/singer Natalia Yanchak. They have a daughter named Neptune Lightburn. In"
"saying ""That's what you want a song to do ... Different interpretations and meanings. Songs aren't monolithic, at least the good ones aren't. What Leona Lewis has done has touched hearts."" ""Newsround"" highly praised Lewis' cover version, stating that ""the full gospel choir and orchestra easily match Leona's powerful pipes – and remind listeners why the song made people cry when she first performed it on Radio 1's Live Lounge last year"". ""Run"" received three stars out of five from Digital Spy, who said that Lewis ""wrings every last drop of emotion out of Gary Lightbody's lyrics, channeling her inner"
"on Greg James' show on BBC Radio 1. Lightbody felt ""honoured"" to be playing at the studio, which has seen performances from artists like David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles in the past. For the promotion of ""Up to Now"", the band played an intimate, acoustic show in Crouch End, London. On 16 November they played an acoustic ""Biz Session"" for UK newspaper ""The Sun"". On 3 December, Lightbody played at HMV Dundrum before signing copies of ""Up to Now"" with the band (with the exception of Connolly, who was ill). The band also played a set with full"